Word: omnibuses
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Jacob Javits of New York, argued that such protectionism represents a historic reversal of U.S. trade policy and threatens to upset international markets. They vowed that it would not pass, and they were willing to talk it to death. The import quotas, moreover, were thrown into a nightmarish omnibus bill by the Senate Finance Committee. The measure also includes a politically popular increase in Social Security benefits and elements of the President's welfare-reforming Family Assistance Plan. Unless the Senators somehow find a way to extract the trade measure, the entire package is likely...
...OMNIBUS CRIME CONTROL. This is the only measure aimed specifically at nationwide street crime. It would extend for another three years the Johnson Administration's Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, which authorizes the use of federal funds to train and equip state and local police agencies. Nixon had sought $3 billion for the three years, compared to the $331 million appropriated for the first two years. The House-passed bill, including Nixon's request, was approved by the Senate last week, 59 to 0. The Senate also tacked on other provisions that would permit FBI agents...
Despite Administration claims that the added force would be used for both campus investigations and antihijacking work, it was likely that most of the 1,000 new agents would actually become involved in anti-bookmaking investigations, which they would inherit under a provision of the omnibus crime bill now before Congress...
...foreign shoes and synthetic and wool textiles. Furthermore, it would force President Nixon to continue curbing oil imports by a quota system, rather than replace the quotas with a less restrictive tariff. The oil deal was wrapped up in eight minutes. Even that might be only the beginning. An omnibus provision authorizes the President to put quotas on any imported products that take as much as 15% of the U.S. market. If the provision becomes law, it could be used immediately to prevent many Americans from buying imported TV and phonograph sets, sheet glass, ceramic tile and leather gloves...
That's the first omnibus admission. Architecture, traditionally the grand representation of the spirit of a people, had, in America become separated from any public-inspired or culturally-attractive purposes, and had begun to lick the heels of business...